String Encoding for Talend/JaspersoftETL for Basic Authentication/md5/sha-256 What is a convenient way to encode usernames/passwords for use in my ETL jobs? First copy the java code on this Github Gist into your clipboard: Second Create a routine called hashingUtils (name is important!). Paste the Java code from above and save the routine Third you can now use the following methods in any component: hashingUtils.basicAuth("username","password") hashingUtils.md5encode("string") hashingUtils.sha256encode("string") For example, in a tHttpRequest Component: